Little did I know that I would have an unexpected visitor tonight in my sleep. As a beautiful woman with silky black hair who's fringe went down to just above her eyes, a ceremonial priestess outfit, with an orange stripe of paint-like eye shadow across her eyes. On top of her head, a golden crown headdress finally surrounding her holy embodiment in flames… came to greet me.
"Hello?" was all I was able to muster up, I looked around and behind me was a void space, I appear to be floating in this area. I was so confused as the last thing I remember was being in bed.
"Well hello there friend." Her silky voice rang smoothly, entrancing me to full attention.
I had a lot of questions. Who are you? Where am I? What's going on here? All of which were valid but what came out of my mouth was:
"Am I dead?"
The woman smiled and floated toward me, the heat from her aura was warm and comforting. She cupped my cheek with her hand, got close to me and whispered.
"Does this feel like you're dead?"
With the shock of what was happening receding, as comfort was sent through my body, my breathing relaxed to realise I wasn't dead nor am I dying. I mustered up the courage to Introduce myself.
"The name's Gaël Skye?" Without missing a beat due to years of practise on the phone lines. I had a long shift in work earlier, working overtime at the office, so the habit kicked in hard as a slip of the tongue. With that introduction, she started to laugh in a really cute way. Her aura glowing slightly and the warmth growing a little hotter.
"The same as ever, I've been watching you for a while now, noticing how sad your life had become, I thought it would be a waste to leave you working yourself to the bone with little prospects that awaited you, especially when you had so much talent brimming inside of you, waiting to be nurtured. I was waiting for the right time when I could reach out to you like this. I want to make you an offer."
Wary started to sit in my face but she just smiled ever so calmly. Waiting for my response.
"What's the offer? By the looks of you, you look like some kind of deity, hold up, you've been watching me, for how long?"
Trying to hold back her laughter, she regained composure again and began explaining.
"I am the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, one of Japan's Shinto Deities. I have been waiting to speak to you this day since you were young, I noticed your life hasn't been going well. Little did you know there's another world out there waiting for you. They worship the Shinto deities as well. As religion in your world has declined in their belief of Gods and Goddesses, we created another world where our followers' belief in us is still strong."
I tried to listen to her at this point but her beauty and allure were too captivating, not to mention the size of her…
"Hey, I know I'm beautiful but I need you to focus right now." She flicked me on the head with a playful smile on her face and carried on.
"My offer to you is to give you a new life. I'll regress your age by a couple of years to give you a better start to train your strength to survive in this world. You will be trained by me personally for a couple of years before you set out for a better start in life. You will also receive my blessing as a limiter on your power. If I were to let you roam around, someone of our blood and talent in our world would be destroyed before we know it."
'Limiter? Power? A new world?' These were questions in my head that I wanted to ask but above all of those questions. I ended up asking.
"So, you are giving me a new life, what's the catch? Sorry this just seems too good to be true, so I have to ask."
Her gaze glows golden, puts her hand out, a bright light glows from her reach and an image is projected. What I see is a world of dragons flying across the skies, Monsters, crawling across the lands, Volcano's erupting as Salamanders covered in lava crawling out of the depths, chasm's across the lands opening up as shadow's with an ominous aura emanating to threaten the land.
"Your job I'm giving you is to clean the land up, the social structure is becoming more corrupt as well. I also want you to build a shrine for me. I was locked out of these land's when I divorced my ex-husband, though that shouldn't have been the sole reason."
She had a face of disgust as she spat out that last phrase.
"How you do it is up to you, providing you don't succumb to the corruption throughout the land. I don't mind if you eliminate the lord's of the area providing you have a way to manage the lands and become a lord yourself. It would be ideal for me so you can build a shrine in my honour for giving you my blessing. Alas you will have to earn that for yourself but before that I will train you for a couple of years so you can learn the power you have."
After getting over my initial shock I had one last question before I accepted her proposal.
"What is this power that I have? I never knew I had anything special about me."
Her golden sight had shone brighter and her smile comes back, floating back to me, caressing my cheek with her soft hand. She hugs me from behind and I tense up from her soft embrace. Her golden aura wrapping me with a familiar warmth, she finally whispers into my ear.
"You share my blood, thus you have the power of the sun and heavens above, meaning you have control over fire and you can fly through the sky. With this you are a mighty dragon. My Blessing is a lock to this power, you are untrained so you would not be able to control your abilities. This is also the reason you couldn't use abilities on Earth. Imagine jumping through the sky only to land and break all the bones in your body or worse dying on me. I couldn't allow that to my precious kin. Try putting your hand out and imagine a flame in your hand. Remember my warmth and feel the bond between us."
As she says this she grabs my hand and I stretch out my arm. I close my eyes and try to imagine, I relax and sink into her embrace as I have the image of Fire in my hand. The familiar feeling of warmth grows stronger and stronger as it wells within my chest. It feels like I can move it across my body. That feeling stretches throughout my nerves to my outstretched arm, flowing to my hand. Suddenly, I hear a flame lighting, as I open my eyes. There I see in my hand a large and wild flame, flickering and writhing, dancing as if it were alive. With this, I smile at the thought that I can use magic. Amaterasu leaves my side and moves in front of me, she closes my hand and with that distraction the flame goes and she holds a mirror to me.
"See your eyes? see how golden they are from your previous blue eyes?" Sure enough they had changed colour for a moment to a burning gold. I had also seen my face actively regress to a younger state, my hair was shorter, my beard had disappeared, revealing my sharp jawline clearly and the tired look in my eyes due to years of stress of working had disappeared. I looked like I was 18 years of age now.
"Is this proof of our familial bond?."
"Yes it is. Your family are descendants of I, though they are human, only you obtained my power as you were born with those eyes that only I could see while you were on Earth. You also have a divine aura like myself but it has yet to mature as I blessed you when you were born to lock your abilities away. I have been keeping my eyes on you, watching you grow up."
I suddenly started feeling conscious and nervous about myself at her last statement. She laughed softly at my reaction and leaned over to me, showing her ample cleavage then lifted my chin up to meet her gaze.
"With this kiss, this will seal the deal that you accept my undertaking, don't worry, I won't keep you all to myself either. You can have other women as well, though I would alternatively prefer you to have you all to myself, I am a deity and I cannot interfere with the world I send you to too much and even then, they have to be exceptional circumstances."
With that I accepted her embrace and leaned into her. My breathing is getting ragged and our lips meet. She felt soft, my eyesight grew dark as I fell unconscious and everything fades to black.
"With this, I will rename you from Gaël Skye to Gaël Brand and you will become my will to bring order to this world, you will become a King of King's, a Hero of Heroes, I look forward to watching your growth."